In 2015, a collaborative DBG (Card Library Building) board game called Doomsday Showdown first released news, but it did not attract enough attention at the time.
For this type of game, it is difficult to see the quality of the game from the basic rules alone, and whether the linkage between various types of cards has enough depth is the key. It was not until the official announcement of its specific gameplay that the crowd exclaimed "true incense"!
Doomsday Showdown not only changes and innovations to the regular DBG gameplay, but also has ingenious and strategic card design. Its ranking in the BGG overall list has risen to 64th, and it has been hailed as the "ceiling" of cooperative DBG games.
In 2019, after launching a series of expansions, Doomsday Showdown launched a new branch work - Doomsday Showdown: Legacy, which can be played independently or added some components to other products in the series after completing the level, which is highly playable.
Now, we are finally waiting for the Chinese version of it, which is on pre-sale! Come and find out what the "ceiling" of this game is, and what makes the new inheritance gameplay different!
The unusual DBG
As you can see from the title of the game, this is an apocalyptic game, when the human world was invaded by unknown creatures, and the survivors were forced to survive in the underground city tombs. During this time, some people gradually learned to draw and use energy from gems and rifts, and guarded the last home of mankind as a rift mage.
Players play as rift mages, who need to cooperate against various powerful boss battles and continuously improve their abilities in battle.
Each player can choose a character and have an initial deck of cards drawn each turn, playing any number of cards, buying new cards in the shop, performing special effects, or unleashing spells, then drawing cards to fill their hands with five.
All players win when the player runs out of boss health, or when the boss's draw stack doesn't have cards; if all players' health is emptied or the main base tomb is destroyed, all players lose, and some bosses have some special ways to win.
In addition to the above conventional mechanics, Doomsday Showdown has many "killer skills":
First of all, the most eclectic is that players can arbitrarily adjust the order of folds when folding each turn, and will not be mixed, and directly flip the fold stack as a new library when the draw library is used up. From the second turn, the cards to be drawn are controllable, eliminating randomness and allowing players to purposefully execute strategies by adjusting the card order, playing various combos.
Second, the order of action is not fixed, and the order of action of the player and the boss in each turn is determined by extracting the action order card, which requires the player to make different changes to different action orders, which increases the thinking dimension while improving the sense of substitution.
Third, yellow spell cards need to be deployed on the rift before they can be released conditionally, so when playing cards, it is necessary to consider not only the current round, but also plan ahead for subsequent rounds.
Fourth, there are many resources in the game, in addition to buying new cards, you can also recharge the character's skills, open new rifts, etc., which tests your resource management ability.
Fifth, unlike some DBG games, where players only focus on building their own card libraries, many cards in Doomsday Showdown will provide teammates with a variety of BUFF, which requires effective linkage to easily defeat powerful bosses, and pays great attention to the cooperation between players.
In the end, players will be punished for exhaustion after their health is emptied, but they can still participate in the game, there is no elimination mechanism, and all participants can enjoy the game the whole time.
Changing inheritance mechanisms
Doomsday Showdown is a distinctive, strategic and challenging DBG board game, and Doomsday Showdown: Legacy brings more rich and interesting changes to the game while retaining these characteristic gameplay.
First of all, the new inheritance mechanism, a large number of new cards, new skills and seven chapters, together to create a complete battle, players will follow the development of the plot, embark on an unforgettable adventure, uncover the secrets hidden behind the fog.
Second, unlike the player in the original game, which used a fixed character, in Doomsday: Legacy, players can customize their own character. Initially, the various characters differed only in appearance, and their abilities were almost whiteboard. But as the chapter progresses, players can choose between multiple skill rewards, reinforce their character in the form of stickers, and name those skills to their liking.
Each selection is a bit difficult, as the rewarded skills seem practical, and players can negotiate with each other to make decisions based on their respective decks and bosses to create their own unique character step by step. This kind of gameplay with a nurturing nature is very substitutionary.
As the chapter progresses, some rules will change, and another important change is that the boss will also "evolve"! In the inheritance, well-designed new bosses may also "evolve" to obtain new decks, bringing new challenges to players.
Don't worry too much, the game progress is linear, and when players fail to challenge, they can reduce the difficulty and continue to try. The difficulty of "Doomsday Showdown: Legacy" is lower than the original, and the guidance is more adequate, it is recommended that novice players enter the pit from this game, and skilled veterans can also choose to challenge the higher difficulty.
Outside of the campaign, the regular gameplay also applies to Doomsday Showdown: Legacy, with new skills and over 230 new player cards bringing more interaction and many new combination possibilities, as well as the original and other expansions that can be amazingly changed!
Doomsday Showdown: Legacy is a perfect continuation of the classic, while retaining the rules of the characteristic gameplay, combined with the inheritance mechanism to create a complete campaign full of immersion and surprise, so that players can enjoy a different experience in each chapter.
The Chinese version of "Doomsday Showdown: Legacy" brought by Mi Bao Dolphin has been officially launched [New Collection], and has successfully unlocked a large number of new cards, friends who missed the original "Doomsday Showdown" series and the previous expansions can also take this opportunity to get on the bus to make up tickets and become a real "Almighty Mage"! Sweeping away monsters and guarding tombs needs your help!